On Jul 17, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Vivek Ayer wrote:
Hi guys,
I'm kind of a newbie at setting up domains on my private networks. I
have a firewall (OpenBSD 3.7) connected to the internet, a wireless
network, and a wired network. It serves internet to the wired and
wireless network via pf (NAT). The router is headless. I have clients
on both wired and wireless networks. I'm not running a DNS server
anyway. In fact, I'm not sure how to setup named. But I was wondering,
since the router is headless and I have to ssh into it, I need to
login without worrying about stupid ip addresses.
I don't want register any domains, just something for network to
identification is easier. In fact, I don't even want a domain presence
outside the networks.
to ssh into the firewall, I have to:
ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rather, I would like to just ssh firewall (or whatever hostname is
given to it)
Say I have two comps on the wired network and two comps on the
wireless network and the firewall. I would like to assign everything
to a common domainname (whether they run linux, windows, whatever).
Say the domainname is daemonized.net.
when I do ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a client to admin the
firewall, I get nothing to work. What are the steps (in detail) I have
to do get this working. Do I even need a DNS server to register the ip
address with the names? This seems like a no-brainer question, but I'd
say I'm relatively new in networking. I hope you guys don't grill me
for this. Thanks a bunch. Appreciate it. I'll send out any system info
after any replies.
Run named on your firewall with recursion enabled. Create local
forward and reverse zones for some domain on your private subnet.
Use dhcp to hand out the DNS server info to your clients. Make sure
you only allow DNS queries from your LAN.
Yes, this is a birds-eye. If you want detail, start reading the
various DNS (Bind) and TCP/IP networking books and learn from
breaking things. ;-)
--
Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net
